Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Command Reference Release 4.0(1a)N2(1) (OL-16599-01, March 2009)

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Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Command Reference
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Chapter 2 Ethernet Commands
name (MST configuration)
name (MST configuration)
To set the name of a Multiple Spanning Tree (MST) region, use the name command. To return to the
default name, use the no form of this command.
name name
no name name
Syntax Description
Command Default None
Command Modes MST configuration mode
Command History
Usage Guidelines Two or more switches with the same VLAN mapping and configuration version number are considered
to be in different MST regions if the region names are different.
Caution Be careful when using the name command to set the name of an MST region. If you make a mistake,
you can put the switch in a different region. The configuration name is a case-sensitive parameter.
Examples This example shows how to name a region:
switch(config)# spanning-tree mst configuration
switch(config-mst)# name accounting
Related Commands
name Name to assign to the MST region. It can be any string with a maximum
length of 32 alphanumeric characters.
Release Modification
4.0(0)N1(1a) This command was introduced.
Command Description
show spanning-tree
mst configuration
Displays information about the MST protocol.
spanning-tree mst
configuration
Enters MST configuration mode.